This is an essential guide to the exciting missions of teenage spy Alex Rider, featuring blueprints, data files, foldout posters & more. Resembling an MI6 secret dossier, these classified documents reveal the inside story of British Intelligence's secret weapon: 14-year-old Alex Rider. Packed with information about every aspect of his missions to date, The Mission Files is an unbeatable guide to the teen super-spy's adventures. It

Includes:: five full-size, double-sided posters & two booklets containing everything you need to know about codes & spycraft.

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Catching the school's runaway guinea pigs is not giving Alex job satisfaction, but how can he find a bigger test for his & Jess's awkward superpowers? Jess is more worried about the bullied new boy, whose Mum runs the animal sanctuary. She volunteers at the sanctuary, but soon realises that something is very wrong; the animals are terrified. People report strange events: things missing, property destroyed, & the local squirrels have turned mean. The police have no suspects. It looks more & more like a job for Agent Alex... ...

Alex Sparrow is a super-agent in training. He is also a human lie-detector. Working with Jess
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From triangles, rotations & power laws, to fractals, cones & curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit, engaging stories & limitless enthusiasm. As he narrates a series of eye-opening encounters with lively personalities all over the world, Alex demonstrates how numbers have come to be our friends, are fascinating & extremely accessible, & how they have changed our world. He turns even the dreaded calculus into an easy-to-grasp mathematical exposition, & sifts through over 30, 000 survey submissions to reveal the world's favourite number. In Germany, he meets the engineer who designed the first roller-coaster loop, whilst in India he joins the world's highly numerate community at the International Congress of Mathematicians. He explores the wonders behind the Game of Life program, & explains mathematical logic, growth & negative numbers. Stateside, he hangs out with a private detective in Oregon & meets the mathematician who looks for universes from his garage in Illinois. Read this captivating book, & you won't realise that you're learning about complex concepts. Alex will get you hooked on maths as he delves deep into humankind's turbulent relationship with numbers, & proves just how much fun we can have with them. ...

Explodes the myth that maths is best left to the geeks. Covering subjects from adding to algebra, from set theory to statistics, & from logarithms to logical paradoxes, this title explains how mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives. It also explains the strategy of how best to gamble in a casino. ...

The world of maths can seem mind-boggling, irrelevant &, let's face it, boring. This groundbreaking book reclaims maths from the geeks. Mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives: from the surprising geometry of the 50p piece to how probability can help you win in any casino. In search of weird & wonderful mathematical phenomena, Alex Bellos travels across the globe & meets the world's fastest mental calculators in Germany & a startlingly numerate chimpanzee in Japan. Packed with fascinating, eye-opening anecdotes, Alex's Adventures in Numberland is an exhilarating cocktail of history, reportage & mathematical proofs that will leave you awestruck. ...

From the bestselling author of Night Owls comes a story of summer, first love & hidden identities... Bailey Mink Rydell has met the boy of her dreams. They share a love of films & talk all day
- Alex is perfect. Well, apart from the fact that they've never actually met... & neither of them knows the other's real name. When Bailey moves to sunny California to live with her dad, who happens to live in the same town as Alex, she decides to track him down. But finding someone based on online conversations alone proves harder than Bailey thought, & with her irritating but charismatic (and potentially attractive?) colleague Porter Roth distracting her at every turn, will she ever get to meet the mysterious Alex? ` If you like Rainbow Rowell, Jandy Nelson & John Green, then you are going to want to check out Jenn Bennett.' Sugarscape
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Alex Jennings is a boy with a problem.

His mum's sent him away to boarding school because his father, the most

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Alex Jennings is a boy with a problem. His mum's sent him away to boarding school because his father, the most famously failed explorer in the history of the Cusp, has escaped from hospital again, yelling 'squiggles'. Make that two problems. Now the evil Davidus Kyte & all his henchmen are after Alex, convinced he alone knows the meaning of the word 'squiggles'. OK, make that three
- Alex Jennings is a boy with a lot of problems. But with the help of a talking dog & a girl with unfeasibly sharp teeth, he just might have what it takes to cross the Forbidden Lands, escape the evil Davidus Kyte, & find out what lies beyond the Cusp... Shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Children's Book Award, Ross Montgomery's Alex, the Dog & the Unopenable Door is a funny, surreal & heart-warming novel.
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Kirsty & Rachel are excited to be entering a charity fashion show where children get to show off their own designs. Unfortunately, Jack Frost thinks everyone in the world should dress like him, & steals the Fashion Fairies' seven magical items to put his naughty plan into action! The fashion reporter from the Tippington Times is having a terrible day
- she muddles up her words, forgets her notepad & generally gets in a fluster. Can Kirsty & Rachel help her out?
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